Leah Cooper

Leah Cooper

Leah Cooper is a freelance stage director, nonprofit administration consultant, and the Program Director of the newly formed Minnesota Theater Alliance. She also serves on the Minneapolis Arts Commission and the board of directors for Live Action Set. From 2001 to 2006, she led the Minnesota Fringe Festival to annual attendance increases and financial stability. Last summer, she headed off to Eureka, CA for a one-month residency with Cornerstone Theater's Summer Institute.

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Transformation

By Leah Cooper
Posted Tuesday, April 20

Far from big budget shows and scrambles for development opportunities, Leah Cooper experiences the kind of theater that still lives up to her childhood ideals.

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Building a better bucket brigade

By Leah Cooper
Posted Monday, May 25

And see, it’s that maniacal way you pull on your hair and squeal that requires us to keep the rehearsal schedule secret from you.

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System error

By Leah Cooper
Posted Thursday, January 29

The board president's moping. The actor's angry. The audience is harassed, and the managing director's thinking of hitting someone with an auction clipboard.

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Blog posts by this author

Where to go with your Jerome travel grant

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 12:26 pm by Leah Cooper

News and notes Learn about "Art and Resistance" in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

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Chanhassen Flash Mob of 207 dancers at Mall of America

Posted Friday, August 27, 2010 at 4:41 pm by Leah Cooper

News and notes See video of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' Flash Mob performance on Sunday at Mall of America.

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Jeff Bartlett in hospital after fall

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 1:48 pm by Leah Cooper

News and notes Jeff Bartlett is in the intensive care unit of Hennepin County Medical Center after a fall at Burnsville Performing Arts Center.

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First public screening of local Film "Ana’s Playground" at Nobel Peace Prize Forum

Posted Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 11:21 pm by Leah Cooper

News and notes Filmed in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood with a local cast and crew, you can see it first on March 6 at 3:15 p.m. at Augusburg College.

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Update on Jeff Bartlett

Posted Friday, August 20, 2010 at 7:59 am by Leah Cooper

News and notes A CaringBridge website has been set up to help friends of Jeff Bartlett follow his recovery and care.

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Conversation about Outrageous Fortune Tuesday at 1:00

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 10:03 am by Leah Cooper

News and notes Arena Stage, National New Play Network, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre discuss Outrageous Fortune live on the Web.

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National Community Spirit Awards honoring Native American artists comes to Twin Cities

Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 3:56 pm by Leah Cooper

News and notes The prestigious national Community Spirit Awards, presented by First People's Fund, will be at SteppingStone Theatre in St. Paul September 10 at 7:00 p.m.

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The Taming of the Shrew, Sept 11-26, 2010.  Theatre Pro Rata.

The Taming of the Shrew

See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

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